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This species is fairly abundant in southern Japan, 

 are from Kobe, Onomichi, and Hiroshima. 

 (mucronatus, having a short, sharp point.) 



Our specimens 



15. HAPALOGENYS KISmNOUYEI Smith and Pope. 



Hapalogenys kishinouyei Smith and Pope, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 31, 1907, 

 p. 476, fig. 6 (Urado). (Type, Cat. No. 55610, U.S.N.M.) 



Habitat. — Coasts of southern Japan. 



Having no specimens of this species, we reproduce the original 

 description. 



Head 2.6 in length; depth 2; eye 3 in head; snout 3.4; interorbital 

 4; dorsal XII, 14; anal III, 10; scales in lateral line 50; gill-rakers 

 11 + 5. 



Fig. 3.— Hapalogenys kishinouyei. 



Body short, high, much compressed; dorsal outline greatly arched, 

 ventral outline nearly straight; caudal peduncle compressed, its least 

 depth 3 in head; snout bluntly pomted; mouth moderate, horizontal, 

 the jaws about equal; maxillary reacliing to beyond anterior margin 

 of pupil; jaws with villiform teeth, the anterior larger and sharply 

 pointed ; roof of mouth toothless, but lined with villiform membranes ; 

 symphyseal notch of upper jaw deep; 4 large pores on lower side of 

 mandible; papillae on mandible minute and close-set; gill-rakers 

 short and thick; preopercle serrate, the denticulations much coarser 

 at the rounded angle; opercle with 2 short spines, the lower the 

 sharper; spinous dorsal preceded by a sharp procumbent spine a 



